37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,

Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.

who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;

Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more arise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.

And all left him and fled.

but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye utterly darkened.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

And whatsoever place shall not receive you nor hear you, departing thence, shake off the dust which is under your feet for a testimony to them.

And as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a witness against them.

Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us on the feet, do we shake off against you; but know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.

But they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house and from his earnings, that performeth not this promise: even thus be he shaken out and emptied! And all the congregation said, Amen! And they praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.

But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: I am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

And as they were crying, and throwing away their clothes, and casting dust into the air,

And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby shall I know that ye are honest: leave one of your brethren with me, and take for the hunger of your households, and go,

And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, his father would die.

and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house; only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

But he that did not regard the word of Jehovah left his bondmen and his cattle in the field.

Thou knowest this, that all who are in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me.

At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them.

And having sailed from Paphos, Paul and his company came to Perga of Pamphylia; and John separated from them and returned to Jerusalem.

but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, going back from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Wherefore, being no longer able to refrain ourselves, we thought good to be left alone in Athens,

For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, so that no one went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy from generation to generation.

We have treated Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto the heavens, and is lifted up to the skies.

For Jehovah hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and as a wife of youth, that hath been refused, saith thy God.

Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.

Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.